The Administration for Children and Families (ACF), Office of Planning, Research and Evaluation (OPRE), will solicit applications for Family Strengthening Scholars grants to support dissertation research on healthy marriage/responsible fatherhood policy issues.

These grants are meant to build

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capacity in the research field to focus on questions that have direct implications for healthy marriage/responsible fatherhood policy decision-making and program administration, and to foster mentoring relationships between faculty members and high-quality doctoral students.

These grants are intended to address issues of significance to inform policy decisions and solutions, particularly for underserved/understudied populations (e.g., low-income families, minority populations), utilize rigorous research methodology (including primary data collection and/or secondary data analysis), and help inform the development of future intervention research.

For further information about OPRE, see http://www.acf.hhs.gov/programs/opre/.

For information about previous Family Strengthening Scholars grantees, see https://www.acf.hhs.gov/opre/research/project/family-strengthening-scholars.